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- From: Russell Collingham <R.J.Collingham@durham.ac.uk>
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- Subject: 7 New Posts (1 Lect, 6 RAs) in Speech Recognition
- Date: 7 Jan 1996 16:25:44 -0000
- Organization: University of Durham, Durham, UK
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- A MAJOR EXPANSION OF COMPUTER SCIENCE AT DURHAM UNIVERSITY
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- 1 Lecturer in Natural Language Engineering (Speech Recognition)
- 3 Research Assistants in Speech Recognition
- 3 Research Assistants in Speech/Language processing
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- The University of Durham has an international reputation for the highest
- standards of excellence in research and in teaching. We are a Collegiate
- University, situated in an attractive historic city.
-
- The Department of Computer Science is undertaking a major expansion, as
- a consequence of the high research profile achieved. Six new staff have
- recently been appointed, with three being in the Laboratory for Natural
- Language Engineering.
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- The Laboratory for Natural Language Engineering is a thriving group of 22
- researchers headed by Prof. Roberto Garigliano, and with 5 other permanent
- staff. Our central piece of work is the LOLITA natural language
- understanding system.
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- This major investment is in one lecturer and six research assistants to
- form a substantial speech recognition group to work together with one of
- the world's leading natural language understanding groups. Substantial
- existing resources within the LNLE will be made available for integrating
- the speech recognition and natural language understanding systems.
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- A considerable part of this funding is made available through a large
- project in the field of telecommunications applications of speech
- recognition.
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- For more information on the Department, the LNLE and the LOLITA system,
- please see our WWW pages under the academic departments section:
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- http://www.dur.ac.uk
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- ONE LECTURESHIP IN NLE (Speech Recognition)
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- The lecturer will have an excellent research track-record in the field of
- real-time speech recognition, with substantial publications, a good PhD
- supervision success rate and a healthy fund-raising portfolio. The lecturer
- should be able to manage a sizeable group of researchers.
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- Applications from experienced industrial researchers are encouraged.
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- Most importantly the lecturer should have substantial practical experience
- in building real-time speech recognition systems, particularly up to the
- subword (phoneme) level. Knowledge of working with telephone quality speech
- would be an advantage.
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- This is a permanent appointment (a three year probation is standard).
- The salary would be on the Lecturer A/B scale according to experience.
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- THREE RESEARCH ASSISTANTS IN SPEECH RECOGNITION
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- These will be one year appointments in the first instance, with the strong
- likelihood of a further 2-3 years of employment.
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- It is anticipated that one senior, one middle and one junior RA will be
- appointed. For the senior and middle ranking appointments, it is desirable
- that the candidates already hold a PhD.
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- Applications from industrial researchers are encouraged.
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- The RAs should possess the ability to work in a large group, and to
- deadlines.
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- Experience in one or more of the following areas is essential:
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- - building (subword) real-time speech recognition systems
- - speech analysis (e.g. LPC)
- - hidden Markov modelling (applied to subword speech recognition)
- - learning (applied to subword speech recognition)
- - building/transcribing spoken corpora
- - training subword language models from spoken corpora
- - C or C++ programming skills
- - knowledge of european languages other than English (e.g. Italian)
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- The salary will be on the Research 1A/1B/2 scale according to experience.
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- THREE RESEARCH ASSISTANTS IN SPEECH/LANGUAGE PROCESSING
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- These will be one year appointments in the first instance, with the strong
- likelihood of a further 2-3 years of employment.
-
- It is anticipated that one middle and two junior RAs will be appointed. For
- the middle ranking appointment, it is desirable that the candidates already
- hold a PhD.
-
- Applications from industrial researchers are encouraged.
-
- The RAs should possess the ability to work in a large group, and to
- deadlines.
-
- Experience in one or more of the following areas is essential:
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- - building and decoding word lattices (e.g. using DTW)
- - search algorithms
- - database search/query
- - management of uncertainty
- - building/transcribing corpora
- - C or C++ programming skills
- - speech synthesis
- - knowledge of european languages other than English (e.g. Italian)
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- The salary will be on the Research 1A/1B/2 scale according to experience.
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- The Department at present is focussed around two major research groups.
- In software engineering, our Centre for Software Maintenance is the
- first such centre world-wide to specialise in an area of major
- industrial importance. In artificial intelligence, our Laboratory for
- Natural Language Engineering is one of the foremost centres in this
- subject.
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- There are currently 16 members of staff (2 Professors, 1 Senior Lecturer,
- 11 Lecturers, a Research Fellow and a Teaching Administrator) and 35 RAs
- and research postgraduates. Both groups attract substantial grants from
- EPSRC, industry, EU, charities etc. At the last Research Assessment
- exercise we were awarded a grade 4. We have excellent computing
- facilities, and we have recently moved into a substantial newly-refurbished
- building. We teach undergraduate courses leading to B.Sc. in Computer
- Science, and several new course developments are in progress. The annual
- intake is around 60 undergraduates. All our postgraduates are studying
- for research degrees. The teaching and administration load is low, with an
- emphasis placed on high quality research.
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- CLOSING DATES:
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- Lectureship : 22nd January
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- RA posts : when all 6 posts are filled
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- Informal enquiries and applications enclosing a full CV containing at least
- two referees may be addressed (email or post) to:
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- | Dr. Russell J. Collingham, Lecturer, |
- | Laboratory for Natural Language Engineering, Dept. of Computer Science, |
- | University of Durham, South Road, Durham, England DH1 3LE |
- | EMAIL: R.J.Collingham@durham.ac.uk |
- | PHONE: (+44 191 or 0191) 374 2637 (2630 secretary) |
- | FAX : (+44 191 or 0191) 374 2560 |
- | WWW : http://www.dur.ac.uk/~dcs0rjc/lnle/lnlehome.html |
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